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because its still test account? :confused:

Maybe I haven't reach that phase in my life and in my career but I am finding quite hard to have some spare time. If I have to describe my life is more like: "never give up". I do not believe in the "perfect trade" or some stories like that, like I guess the majority of us. Do you have any...

I am reporting here a discussion that has been initiated in another thread because I do not want to mess the other topic with this "lateral issue " Can you give me your opinion in using a buy and hold strategy with the futures: it possible to implement a strategy similar to the buy and hold...

thx for supporting the "both" strategy, if you want to write a book I am in :) 4-1 leverage I would not recommend it, the risk is that if "something goes wrong" you may end up paying the rent to the bank. Also I do agree that renting is more time consuming then staying long on 3-4 ETFs...

well i do not know much of the US market but I hope that you can get 4-5% out of a rented house. Otherwise is non-sense investing ... or maybe you should consider moving in the European market :)

This is an article that talk about that: http://vancouverdesi.com/business/ecb-focus-ecb-mulls-danish-style-deposit-charge-as-lending-prod/ What do you think about? Personally.. it will be a way to animate a bit the forex trading and maybe test the swiss cap of 1.20.

If i correctly understood, the question is more: "i am planning my retirement what I should do with my spare cash? Buy a house or some ETFs?" My personal advice is: both 60% equity in a house that you will rent (40% loan from a bank) and 40% ETFs. (maybe "bond based" instead of "stock based")

Sure if you are dealing with the future or the option i do not see the point of the physical delivery unless you want to go for the buy and hold. i would like to know more about this... i initiate a new discussion at the following link...

I am reporting here a discussion that has been initiated in another thread. I do not want to mess the other discussion with this "lateral issue " Is it possible to replicate the buy and hold strategy with the Futures? One of our fellow suggested the following: "The only way I can...

This is a nice starting point, thx. I do not want to do a philosophical discussion but if you advertise ETFs as a transparent asset you should really be transparent till the end. If you do not make explicit the way the index is computed (note that i am saying the index and not the ETF that is...

+1 what I would like to have is something like: y=f(x) In order to understand how the index is computed once and for all. If the index contains different assets that can be replaced i would also like to know the algorithm that is use for doing that. These are stuff done from machines...

Actually you have a point. Unfortunately many of us can short bonds with IB or similar, but maybe we can do something with the future. However, i am not exactly comfortable with bonds future...

I am in the club that cannot short the bonds and must play with the "futures". Btw, to the best of my knowledge IB does not provide physical delivery of EU Bonds, isn't it? It just provides physical delivery of assets that can stay in the account. As for considering the future as the...

maybe i am a bit naif but.... we are talking about automatic indexes so.. can someone post the algorithms? does anyone know where we can find them? This information will probably clarify any discussion! Obviously, it will clarify this discussion but not predict the market :)

this is a very interesting video if you want to know more about the topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNCVI4tyCCo

IB is in US if I understood correctly. Non profit organization in Switzerland do not have to pay taxes for income as long as they reinvest what they earn in the organization. This page is probably generating some misunderstanding: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=tax...

i am interested in the discussion except that i would like to be a bit long in EUR. Unfortunately IB does not provide many options

Hi all, one of my friend is working in a Swiss non-profit organization and is considering to use IB instead of the local bank for the accounts of the organization. He is asking me about taxes but I do not know exactly how it works. I believe that IB has a local office in Switzerland...

Yes I did and I found the information that you just share with me. If i look at the PDF I can see that the "Top 10 Holdings" of 3 july 2012 was FRANCE (REPUBLIC OF) 4.25 10/25/2023 12.35% FRANCE (REPUBLIC OF) 3.5 04/25/2026 10.59% BUONI POLIENNALI DEL TESORO 4.75 08/01/2023 8.15% FRANCE...

I wanted to ask you if you know detailed information regarding the index that ETFs are used to replicate. I will give you an example: This ETF http://ch.ishares.com/en/pc/products/IEGZ is supposed to track the performances of the "Barclays Capital Euro Government 10-15 Year Term...